Combined head covering and writing accessory



Dec. 6, 1949 F. SCHLESINGER COMBINED HEAD COVERING AND WRITING ACCESSORYFiled March 29, 1947 INVENTOR. FRANK SCHLES/NGER A T TORNF Y PatentedDec. 6, 1949 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE,

COMBINED HEA'D' COVERING- AND WRITING ACCES S'ORY 4 Claims.

This invention relates to improved means for supporting pencils andpencil Sharpeners, and particularly to provide butchers, grocery clerks,cab drivers, truck drivers, and other workers who must frequently use apencil, with means always ready at hand for sharpening a dull pencilpoint.

One of the more particular objects of the invention is to provide meansfor securing a small pencil sharpener on the brim or visor of a headcovering or cap, so that it will always be handy for immediate use, andcannot be dropped or easily lost, without losing the head covering orcap to which it is attached.

Another object of the invention is to provide a connection for the bladeof the pencil sharpener, which also serves to support or anchor the studby which the pencil sharpener is attached to a female button socket onthe visor of the cap.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention comprisescertain new and useful constructions and arrangements of parts, clearlydescribed in the following specification, and fully illustrated in thedrawings, in which;

Fig. l is a perspective view of a cap, showing the pencil sharpener inposition on the visor of the cap.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view, broken away, showing the cap visor withthe pencil removed.

Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a pencil.

Fig. 4 is a detail sectional view, taken on line 4-4 of Fig. 1, lookingin the direction of the arrows, showing the blade holding screw and themale stud secured to it.

Referring to the drawings, 5 designates a cap of the type which iscommonly worn by butchers, grocery clerks, cab drivers, truck driversand other types of workers who have frequent use of a writing pencil,and who must quickly sharpen a point that has been dulled or broken off.This cap includes the usual head covering or hood 6 and the brim orvisor I. The head band 8 is provided with a fabric or leather loop 9 toreceive a writing pencil P.

The visor I is provided with a male button stud I0, which is adapted toenter the female socket II, on the head covering or hood 6. To one sideof this male button stud, the pencil sharpener I2 or other writingaccessory is secured.

The pencil sharpener I2 is provided with a pencil-receiving conical holeI3, a cutting blade I 4, and a screw I5 for holding the blade in cuttingrelation to the hole I3. The screw I5 is threaded through the blade I4into the body In of the pencil sharpener.

The inner end of the screw I5 engages a male button stud I6, formed ofsheet metal die cupped or drawn, which is tightly secured to the end ofthe screw, and which is locked in the outer sheet metal male stud IT.

The male stud I1 is adapted to fit in the female button socket I8, whichis rigidly secured to the visor I. In this way the screw I5 serves tosecure the blade I4 on the body of the pencil sharpener, and at the sametime secures the coupling male stud I! to the pencil sharpener.

The male stud I! not only couples the pencil sharpener to the cap visor,but permits the pencil sharpener to swivel on the cap visor, so that itmay be used with the cap being placed in any position which is mostsuited to the wishes of the user.

In another modification of the invention, the pencil I9, shown in Fig. 3is also provided with a metal or other collar or band 20, which isformed or provided with a male button stud 2 I, which is adapted to havecoupling engagement with the female button socket 23, on the cap 5,shown in Fig. 2.

The pencil sharpener may also be coupled to the female button socket 23,and the pencil I9 may be coupled to the female button socket I8, shownin Fig. 2.

Although not shown in the drawing, the visor I, besides serving theabove-mentioned purposes, helps support long pencils which wouldotherwise be apt to fall from the loop 9 or band 20.

It is understood that various changes in the detail construction of theparts, and their combination, may be made in carrying out the inventionas defined in the appended claims.

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent, is:

1. The combination of a writing accessory and a head covering having avisor and a hood, means for fastening said hood to said visor, a femalebutton element secured to said visor adjacent the hood fastening means,and a male button element secured to said writing accessory, said buttonelements being adapted detachably to secure said writing accessory onsaid head covering in such a position that, upon fastening of said hoodto said visor, said writing accessory will be at least partiallyconcealed.

2. The combination according to claim 1, wherein said writing accessoryis a pencil sharpener having a body provided with a, conicalpencilreceiving hole and a sharpener blade and further provided with ascrew extending through said blade and through said body and projectingat one end therefrom, said male button element being secured to theprojecting end of said screw.

3. The combination of a writing accessory and a head covering having abrim and a, hood, detachable means for fastening said hood to said brim,and means for detachably fastening the writing accessory to said brimadjacent to the hood fastening means in such position that, uponfastening Of said hood to said brim, said writing accessory will be atleast partially concealed.

4. The combination of a writing accessory and a head covering, said headcovering having a visor and a hood, and cooperating fastening means onthe head covering and the writing accessory designed to clamp theaccessory to the head covering in such a position as to at leastpartially conceal the accessory when the visor and hood are inoverlapping relation.

FRANK SCHLESINGER.

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